Distance education is one of the earliest fields in which the network set foot, and "network education" is also a big space for the expansion and application of network technology. From CAI technology to CD? With the development of ROM technology, hypertext technology, hypermedia technology and network technology, educational means, educational methods, educational resources, educational concepts and educational systems have changed, and many aspects of traditional educational methods have also changed. From people (teachers, students, administrators, etc.). ) to things (textbooks, reference books, reference materials, teaching equipment, etc. ); From hardware (classrooms, libraries, etc. ) to software (educational ideas, teaching methods, teaching management, etc. ) have been challenged to a certain extent, which are problems that modern distance education should study, answer and solve.

Modern distance education refers to distance education based on Internet (terrestrial network) and satellite network (Skynet), and it is a new mode or frontier branch of distance education. Now we need to explore the combination of Internet, a new means, and school education, pay attention to the educational revolution triggered by this new technology, and study what prospect it will bring to modern distance education. Multimedia is conducive to creating a real teaching environment. If you play well, you can use audio, graphics, text, animation, video and other means in teaching to effectively cultivate students' basic ability. How to combine multimedia technology, hypertext technology, hypermedia technology and virtual reality technology perfectly is helpful to improve the efficiency of school teaching, which still needs a lot of research and exploration, but the general trend is that it will greatly benefit school teaching, strengthen the effect of school teaching, provide a more humanized interface, provide the whole course teaching content and provide lifelong teaching means. At present, a distance education website not only provides teaching content, but also provides students at different levels with rich extracurricular reading materials, extracurricular groups and extracurricular activities, such as books, newspapers, magazines, radio, movies, TV and videos. In this respect, with the progress of Internet technology and the improvement of Internet usage level, the Internet will play a more active role in the development of modern distance education.

Second, the significance of the Internet to the transformation of educational concepts

The appearance of the Internet not only provides advanced teaching means and skills for modern education, but also poses a greater challenge to the transformation of teaching concepts. In other words, modern education and teaching methods and skills must have modern educational concepts that are compatible with them, so as to maximize the role of the Internet.

First, the concepts of lifelong education and integrated education. With the continuous development of modern education, people's education time has extended beyond the school gate, to adulthood, and even to old age; The emergence of distance education makes education regardless of age, occupation and social status a common phenomenon. The so-called integrated education refers to the education that educated people with many differences can receive at the same time. At present, as far as teaching forms are concerned, modern distance education has been taken as a supplement to school education, which is aimed at both on-campus and off-campus personnel. It can be said that it provides unprecedented opportunities and conditions for the popularization of education and lifelong learning, and deeply implants the concepts and consciousness in this respect into the concepts of decision makers and the public.

Second, innovate educational ideas. In a sense, the idea of innovation is the foundation of the success of online education, because the network world is criss-crossing, with countless connections and relationships, which is consistent with the overall characteristics of innovation, change, diversification and fast pace of modern society, and inspires people to have more extended ideas, broader horizons and more agile thinking. The object of network innovation education is the educator himself, not the educated. It requires education systems and institutions to seriously respond to the challenges of the network environment, requires teachers to change their status from detailed statements to supporters of active learning, requires education leaders and practitioners not only to study the scientific laws of education, but also to study the development of science and technology and social economy, and requires that the content, methods and level of education should not only adapt to the current social requirements, but also adapt to the future social development.

Third, reshape the concept of cultural competence. This concept is directly related to literacy and the definition of literacy. In a society based on printing, literacy usually refers to people's reading and writing ability, and literacy is often defined according to the number of literacy, which is also the standard for judging illiteracy. In the network society, an individual's cultural ability should be multifaceted: on one level, he must be able to read and write; On the other hand, he should have certain technical ability and be able to use remote communication tools such as computers, which can also be said to be the reading and writing ability of the network society; On more levels, he is a cultural person living in real society and network society, and should have the ability to adapt and create both at the same time.

Fourth, the concept of school virtualization. As a common phenomenon, the network means that the traditional factors of production-capital, site, inventory and skilled labor-are no longer the main determinants of economic power, and the economic potential will be more and more linked with the ability to control and manipulate information. The definition of school hardware facilities will go beyond the scale, stock, land occupation and other indicators, and add new requirements such as creativity, liquidity and speed. The function of the school and the concept of campus construction will also change.

Fifth, the concept of social education. In the network society, education is no longer the patent of schools, but more and more becomes the common cause of society-individuals and families regard education as the best investment field; Enterprises regard education as the basis to improve the quality of employees and the competitiveness of enterprises; The state and society regard education as the main symbol of comprehensive national strength and social civilization.

Thirdly, the influence of Internet on modern education.

There are two ways for the Internet to influence modern education: direct influence and indirect influence.

The direct impact is easy to see from the resources available to the school. For example, the internet can make rural schools and vulnerable groups, people who are inconvenient to leave their jobs, and so on. No longer restricted by school conditions and access to school educational resources. After accessing the Internet, they can get all kinds of educational resources and services they need in the most economical way. Internet also has unique advantages that other information providing methods do not have: once connected, massive information does not need to increase physical space, storage is simple, and schools and individuals do not need to increase storage rooms. Information can be saved on disk for future use or deleted when not in use. In any case, schools and individuals will not face the task of increasing library space to store a large number of increased resources. The direct influence of the Internet on courses can be seen from the types of courses offered by schools. For example, if a school can connect the whole library to the Internet, so that every learner can access it, the school can offer new Internet technology courses. Incorporating such new technology courses into the curriculum system will not only have an impact on the existing curriculum, but also the whole new curriculum needs further development. Curriculum developers, students and teachers must answer some questions: What do we need students to know about the Internet? What is the best way to teach these skills and concepts? What moral factors must we examine? At what level are these concepts taught to students? In addition, the courses that teachers are currently using will be directly influenced by the Internet. The more the Internet is used in courses, the more roles teachers play as coaches and assistants. When students solve problems in groups, there will be more cooperative learning. When teachers learn and use these methods, the whole curriculum of the school will change. However, no matter what method is used, teachers must work together with Qi Xin to introduce the Internet into school daily life. With the extensive use of the Internet, the effective application of the Internet can affect the curriculum as effectively as textbooks or even more effectively.

The indirect influence is manifested in stimulating students' interest in learning. As a teacher, I always hope to find a way to encourage students to devote themselves to learning and make them interested in learning. How can teachers stimulate each student's interest in active learning and lifelong learning? These problems have always plagued education. However, now we can witness students reading information for hours on the Internet. We do see that students like to use the Internet to study a certain topic. We also see that students are very interested in learning through the Internet, and there is no doubt that they will continue to study. Internet has magical power to make students interested in learning. This is because: firstly, students can have more control over the information they choose. Secondly, students will discuss problems in the form of multimedia. Third, online activities create good opportunities for students to study cooperatively. Finally, the Internet provides connections with others and other places. These judge a student not by nationality, race or intelligence, but by the words and ideas used by students in communication. Will students' enthusiasm for learning fade with the fading of the freshness of the network? We can definitely answer: no! This is because: suppose you have a book that you like to read very much, and you have read it many times, and each time you will find new meaning in your works. Although you think highly of this book, the conclusion is always different. We cite this example to show that the ending of the Internet is rarely the same, because it is constantly adding new materials. These materials are not added every year, month or day, but every hour and minute. There is not much information on a certain question one day, but it may be a lot after one day. This is why the Internet is so vivid for students.

Four, the Internet into modern education should pay attention to the problem

Neil Pozmann (Neil? Postman) warned in his book Technology that every technology will have an impact on society, whether it is good or bad. Pozmann wants us to understand that technology is never neutral. Modern education should pay attention to its negative effects while using internet technology to obtain various benefits.

First of all, when we widely use the Internet in teaching, we must pay attention to some important moral issues. First of all, as a teacher, students must be taught to screen the information obtained on the Internet frequently and find out who sent it. Where did it come from? Are there any obvious mistakes in these materials? Secondly, the moral problem that must be considered is that there are some materials on the Internet that are not suitable for students, such as pornographic web pages. Third, "Internet addiction" is another problem. Scholars in Taiwan Province Province made a survey of 2000 college students, and the results showed that many college students suffered from serious Internet addiction. They have been addicted to the online world for a long time, some are too lazy to communicate with people around them, some often can't sleep because they are worried about whether the mail has been delivered, some vent their daily unhappiness through the internet, some forget to eat and sleep as soon as they get online, their fingers itch when they don't surf the internet for more than an hour, and they knock on the desktop as a keyboard ... In our daily life, the number of people whose academic performance has dropped due to addiction to the internet and those with psychological problems has only increased. In this regard, schools should regulate such problems through clear moral standards and student behavior standards.

Second, the Internet is just a tool. Internet allows netizens to share information, thoughts and news with any individual in the world, which will have an impact on many aspects of education. We must have a basic understanding of the potential impact of the Internet on modern education: the Internet is just a tool, a tool used by teachers to provide students with a window to the world-the Internet will not teach students, but teachers will still teach students; Although the internet can increase students' access to educational resources and information, the role of these new resources is limited without the guidance and teaching of teachers to screen information; The correct application of the Internet will be beneficial to students' education, while the improper application will make students suffer. Internet will never replace teaching methods, and nothing can replace cooperative learning, group discussion, good research, teacher-student communication and written courses. The significance of Internet to teaching lies in improving the teaching quality of teachers and students. Necholas Negroponte said in his book Towards Digitalization: As time goes by, more people will use the Internet to learn knowledge and skills, because it will become an auxiliary network for personal learning. ②

Third, can the Internet enter the curriculum? If we add online courses, we will change the school plans and teachers' responsibilities in the classroom. If the Internet is taken as a part of the curriculum, what teachers teach and how they teach will change. Furthermore, if the school chooses to add Internet courses, the school itself will also change. There is no way to list all the changes that a school may face when choosing the Internet. However, for a teacher, the wise choice is: first of all, as a teacher, he should not expect too much from his students. Teachers must tell students how to deal with information and teach them how to find new information. Secondly, we should realize that we are not educating children to enter our world, but educating them to enter a future world-their future. If our courses can't meet the needs of explaining students' future, then we will do a very immoral thing. Finally, the biggest change may be that we don't know what will happen in the future. What will the Internet look like in the future 10 or 20 years? Does it have a big impact on schools and courses? In The Road Out of School, Lei Wen Pearman conceived a society to learn in the future. A society similar to and advanced from the Internet. No matter what the future holds, teachers always shoulder the heavy responsibility of providing students with the best educational services. If we can't teach students how to make use of available resources, then Pozmann's words will be correct-replace people with technology, and we may find ourselves being used by technology.